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1 V9FS: 9P2000 for Linux
2 ======================
3
4ABOUT
5=====
6
7v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote filesystem protocol.
8
9This software was originally developed by Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
10and Maya Gokhale <maya@lanl.gov>. Additional development by Greg Watson
11<gwatson@lanl.gov> and most recently Eric Van Hensbergen
12<ericvh@gmail.com> and Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>.
13
14USAGE
15=====
16
17For remote file server:
18
19 mount -t 9P 10.10.1.2 /mnt/9
20
21For Plan 9 From User Space applications (http://swtch.com/plan9)
22
23 mount -t 9P `namespace`/acme /mnt/9 -o proto=unix,name=$USER
24
25OPTIONS
26=======
27
28 proto=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are
29 currently:
30 unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
31 tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
32 fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
33 (see rfdno and wfdno)
34
35 name=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
36 server may override or ignore this value. Certain user
37 names may require authentication.
38
39 aname=name aname specifies the file tree to access when the server is
40 offering several exported file systems.
41
42 debug=n specifies debug level. The debug level is a bitmask.
43 0x01 = display verbose error messages
44 0x02 = developer debug (DEBUG_CURRENT)
45 0x04 = display 9P trace
46 0x08 = display VFS trace
47 0x10 = display Marshalling debug
48 0x20 = display RPC debug
49 0x40 = display transport debug
50 0x80 = display allocation debug
51
52 rfdno=n the file descriptor for reading with proto=fd
53
54 wfdno=n the file descriptor for writing with proto=fd
55
56 maxdata=n the number of bytes to use for 9P packet payload (msize)
57
58 port=n port to connect to on the remote server
59
60 noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics)
61
62 uid attempt to mount as a particular uid
63
64 gid attempt to mount with a particular gid
65
66 afid security channel - used by Plan 9 authentication protocols
67
68 nodevmap do not map special files - represent them as normal files.
69 This can be used to share devices/named pipes/sockets between
70 hosts. This functionality will be expanded in later versions.
71
72RESOURCES
73=========
74
75The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project
76on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs).
77
78There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project
79on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs).
80
81News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs).
82
83Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla
84(http://bugzilla.kernel.org)
85
86For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out
87http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9
88
89For information on Plan 9 from User Space (Plan 9 applications and libraries
90ported to Linux/BSD/OSX/etc) check out http://swtch.com/plan9
91
92
93STATUS
94======
95
96The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86.
97
98PLEASE USE THE SOURCEFORGE BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT PROBLEMS.
99